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Mustafa Xaja, Kosovar-Albanian refugee, Kosovar-Albanian border, Kukes, Albania, 1999.
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I wonder if he remained in Albania or came to Britain and got benefits.
 
Ranger07 said:
You cant blame the soldiers for their politicians decisions, they are just the poor ******** who have to put their lives on the line.
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They can quit any time they like. They weren't conscripted. They could have walked out when they heard about the invasion, they could have quit at any time after that, so don't give me that. They took the pay, they all went willingly to use white phosphorus and drop cluster bombs into civilian neighbourhoods. They most certainly did not HAVE to join the army or HAVE to put their lives on the line. They chose to every step of the way. What about the Iraqis? War came to THEM whether they were up for it or not. Did they have a choice? If anyone's the "poor ********" it's them.

No, I am not a troll, I have just hated everything the US has done since they dropped the A-bombs on a bunch of women and kids and don't see how, in light of that anyone can have any sympathy for them especially when you look at the civilian death toll in Iraq since 2003 versus the US military deaths and realise that one is 100 times the other. I don't see how 1 fancy picture gets all you grown men blubbing when there is 5 years of charred civilian corpses almost directly attributable to that man and his "buds" who are the very (100% willing) hand of the government that you openly deride. Maybe you should sit down and have a think.

I just had to post that because I don't like it when people assume that anyone with an opinion different to the 9-5, breed and die crew is a troll.
 
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secretspy said:
thats awful :( made me cry. how could they just stand there and watch that guy try on his own to save him.although i guess as Johnnytoxic said unless youre there you cant really comment.
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Holy crap :( :( :( made me well up.... How could those people live with themselves... covering hands up with your coat or something could have made it possible to give a shove. Shocked that the other cars kept going.. :eek:
 
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Duke said:
Roger Williamson - Fatal F1 Crash 1973.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mz3ZzSXyWM
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Arrgh, I knew that would get linked at some point, really can't watch it again, once was enough :(

I just finished writing about David Purley in my piece of original writing coursework for college too, which was based on someone who has inspired you, even me just writing about the incident struck my teacher emotionally, such a powerful story :(
 
Solari said:
Holy crap :( :( :( made me well up.... How could those people live with themselves... covering hands up with your coat or something could have made it possible to give a shove. Shocked that the other cars kept going.. :eek:
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When my Dad was around 8 years old he watched his older sister go up in flames when a piece of coal flirted out and set light to her nightdress.
She obviously died and he bears the scars of trying to put her out.
I reckon that car was even hotter than that.
 
The Roger Williamson crash is a truely saddening thing to watch, must have felt so hopeless when nobody else was stopping and he was the only one attempting to turn the car over.
The video with the music sort of kills everything though...
 
I always thought this was pretty cool:

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.
But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

"He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes Followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the Engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was Anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was told. ``There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out a Lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed Him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his Head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? ``Go Bruins!'' And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the School organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want To do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran More than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still, he Tried. ``Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. ``I was sore For two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were running, It felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly Shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.

``No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite a Single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a few Years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then They found a way to get into the race Officially: In 1983 they ran another marathon so fast they made the Qualifying time for Boston the following year.

Then somebody said, ``Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since he Was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still, Dick Tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour Ironmans in Hawaii . It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud Getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you Think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says. Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick with A cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their best Time? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world Record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens to Be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at the Time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had a Mild heart attack during a race. Doctors found that one of his arteries Was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in such great shape,'' One doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15 years ago.'' So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass. , always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really wants to give him is a gift he can never buy.

``The thing I'd most like,'' Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afv5jTrC7nM&feature=related
 
Really really sad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF4iFJ-G74o

David Shaw was a leading technical diver, one of the best in the world. Found the body of a young diver who had disappeared earlier that year and promised to return his body but lost his life in the process. Two days after the incident, David's body and the body of the boy who lost his life floated to the surface - although it had cost him his life, he did his job. :(
 
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